Huobi has launched a service allowing users to mortgage their bitcoins in return for Chinese yuan (CNY) loans to purchase real shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.The platform, Caimao, allows investors disappointed with the recent slump in bitcoin price to put that value to use in an asset class that has grown 125% in the past year.Customers will use the Caimao […]
Stock Market Last Hurrah?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 04, 2015 – 07:20 PM GMTBy: Andre_GratianCurrent Position of the MarketSPX: Long-term trend – The bull market is still intact.Intermediate trend – Is the 7-yr cycle sketching an important top?Analysis of the short-term trend is done on a daily basis with the help of hourly charts. They are important adjuncts to the […]
Stock Trading Alert: Indexes Continue To Fluctuate Along Record Levels – Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Mon, May 4, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on May 4, 2015, 6:36 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, speculative short positions are favored (with stop-loss at 2,140, and profit target at 1,980, S&P 500 index)Our intraday outlook is bearish, and our short-term outlook […]
Stock Market: Big Sell-Off Looming!By: Brad Gudgeon | Sat, May 2, 2015SharePrintEmailLast time I wrote, I was expecting the stock market to fill the gap left on the SPX near 2081-82 by Friday last week. That was accomplished on Thursday when the SPX fell to 2077. What I saw on my indicators showed more a lack of buying than true […]
Twitter’s stock plunged around 20 percent following its early earnings release on Tuesday, wiping out gains achieved in the past year. The move amounted to the microblogging site’s second all-time worst day of trading, and the stock has continued to sink ever since.Brian Kelly of Brian Kelly Capital said that while the drop presented an interesting trading opportunity, the company […]
Stock Market Correction Time?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2015May 02, 2015 – 06:22 PM GMTBy: Tony_CaldaroAnother month completed and the choppy activity continues. The market started the week at SPX 2118, gapped up on Monday and hit an all time high of 2126. Then it went into its recent choppy activity again until Thursday: 2095-2116-2097-2114-2091-2103-2079. Then gapped up hitting SPX 2108 […]
Share on StockTwitsEmbedI am being asked by many new followers for a refresher crash course in how I look at markets…here goes:I believe you should invest in stocks, but if you are to take the time, aim to crush the averages.The best way for ME (not necessarily you) to do this has been trend investing and angel investing.Drawdowns are inevitable […]
Comedy movies and risky stock trading – linked?Attention stock-market followers – have you considered whether weekend comedy-movie attendance, and investment in risky stock-market assets on the following Monday might be linked? This question has been the subject of an in-depth investigation by Gabriele M. Lepori, (formerly) Assistant Professor of Finance at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (now at Keele Management School, […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange April 30, 2015.Reuters/Brendan McDermidTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange April 30, 2015.Reuters/Brendan McDermid n”>(Reuters) – U.S. stocks, led by the Nasdaq, sold off on Thursday as Apple shares declined, and tech and biotech quarterly results disappointed.Upbeat economic reports added to uncertainty about the outlook […]
April 30 Market Close: GovCon Index Plunges 2%, Biotech Losses Send Stocks DownRoss Wilkers April 30, 2015 Financial Report, News 49 ViewsThe GovCon Index capped the month of April with a decline of 2.001 percent to hit its lowest closing figure of the month at 73.372.Bloomberg cited losses in small cap and biotechnology stocks as a driver of declines in U.S. stock […]
